Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1919 — HINTS FOR THE POULTRY GROWER [ARTICLE]

HINTS FOR THE POULTRY GROWER

Cholera and blackhead, a common disease of which many kinds of domestic poultry die, but most commonly chickens and turkeys, has no real name In poultry annals, though on making a diagnosis of the dead birds often it is called cholera, blackhead and a few other names, when, after all, it is merely acute inflammation of the intestines caused by feeding constipating food, says one person. It Is true that fowls after eating drastic poisons, will show up with the same intestinal inflammation, but it is more commonly due to feeding a too-heavily concentrated ration. It is the riysterious disease that so often kills hogs, calves and sheep. In the first it is, as in poultry, too often attributed to cholera, and the owner goes on feeding in the old way instead of giving the flock? or the herd, plenty of pure water at all hours to quickly pass the concentrated food on to quick elimination, helped on by regular doses of Epsom salts. Tfais neglect is more apparent with I poultry than other stock. Corn is one of the feeds most sure to bring on this condition, if fed in large quantities to any kind of stock. With poultry, as with other stock, and especially in spring when frost lies on the new grass the trouble at times will bring abput great loss.